Comines
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Christophe Bourgois, 29, a builder, said it was worth his while to drive to the French border town of Halluin from his Belgian home town of Comines.
From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2022
We were," says De Comines, "in a valley between two little mountain flanks, and in that valley ran a river which could easily be forded on foot, except when it is swelled with sudden rains.
From New Italian sketches by Symonds, John Addington
"Our king," says De Comines, "used to dress so ill that worse could not be—often wearing bad cloth and a shabby hat with a leaden image stuck in it."
From The Story of Paris by Kimball, Katherine
How much the fiction of Sir Walter Scott owes to Froissart, and to Philip de Comines after Froissart, those only can understand 27 who have read both the old chronicles and the modern romances.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
This is a great truth, and my master acknowledged 188 it when I read it out of the book of Philippe de Comines.
From Francezka by Seawell, Molly Elliot
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